Biology

Reptile Vs Reptile Battle Project

who do you think would win in a battle

What is a Reptile?

A reptile is a vertebrate animal of a class that includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and tortoises. They are distinguished by having a dry scaly skin and typically laying soft-shelled eggs on land.

What I think should have won by logic, reasoning, and history.

Little Foot Vs Stormfly

Little foot is known to take down multiple tyrannosauruses, but Stormfly can fly and little foot has trouble taking down flying animals, and usually tries to dodge attacks and hide from flying objects or animals. Stormly not only can fly but can shoot a magnesium beam which can easily melt your average tank. Stormfly can shoot spiked projectiles form her tail and little foot has a huge weakness towards spiked projectiles. So in this case Stormfly should have won this fight.

Bowser Vs Minecraft Hydra

Bowser can get super big but Bowser can not fly giving the Hydra the height avenge. The legendary Hydra can easily beat Bowser as Bowser weakness is now exposed as his weakness is on the top of his head. Bowser while can get as big as mount Everest can easily break unbreakable blocks with it's huge fire balls while the hydra can not. Bowser can also build huge castles that can easily defeat the Hydra. In this case Bowser should have won this fight.

Stormfly Vs Bowser

Bowser can get super big but Bowser can not fly giving the Stormfly the height avenge. Stormfly can easily beat Bowser as Bowser weakness is now exposed as his weakness is on the top of his head. Bowser while can get as big as mount Everest can easily break unbreakable blocks with it's huge fire balls while the hydra can not. Bowser can also build huge castles that can easily defeat Stormfly. In this case Bowser should have won this fight.

Bowsette Vs Yellow Striped Python

Bowsette can easily beat the Yellow Striped Python even as normal size. as the Python's main way to kills is by strangling it's pray, and Bowsette's spikes and horn's will easily puncturing the snake, easily killing it, not to mention like Bowser she can get super huge and can easily stop for flame the snake. So in this fight Bowsette won the fight.

Toothless Vs Gayle

Most People would think Gayle would be helpless in this battle, but Gayle can craft weapons like axes, and can jump pretty high. She would least at least 5 minutes to a deadly foe, Toothless is nicknamed Night Furry for a reason. Gayle could get a few cuts on Toothless before she would end in her unavoidable doom. Just like in Httrd, she would be like the Vikings, most Vikings when meeting with a Night Furry would never see the light of day again and even the most legendary figures will eventually die to toothless. In this case, toothless would get a pretty easy battle but only with a few cuts here and there.

Toothless Vs Bowsette

Bowsette can get super big but Bowsette can not fly giving the Toothless the height avenge. Toothless can easily beat Bowsette as Bowser weakness is now exposed as his weakness is on the top of his head. Bowsette while can get as big as mount Everest can easily break unbreakable blocks with it's huge fire balls while the Toothless can not. Bowsetee can also build huge castles that can easily defeat Tootless. While Toothless is a master escape artist, this would be the deadliest trap toothless has ever been in. Bowsette has all the tools that she would ever need. Even though Toothless deafeated huge foo In this case Bowette should have won this fight.

Reproduction of Reptiles

How Little Foot Reproduces

Little Foot is a Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus reproduce like most mammals and some reptiles, they get on top of each other and do it (mate). Although they mate like normal their sheer size makes it hard to reproduce. Most Scientist think that it would break bones of the dinosaur, but the world was able to support huge animals so thertilizay hood of Apatosaurus breaking bones is very little possibility.

After mating the Apatosaurus will do internal fertilization and then the female makes a nest before she lays the eggs. She waits for it to hatch protecting it from predators.

Description

Red foxes have mainly reddish orange fur with some black and white fur. They belong to the K9 family, about the same size as a medium dog like a Boxer or Golden Rechever. They are lightweight and weigh up to 31 pounds. The biggest red fox weighted up to 38 pounds.

Location

The Red Foxes Lives all over Europe, Asia, little of Africa, Northern North America and Southern Australia. They seem very common according to where they live but actually there are only 19,200 in the globe.

They Live In These Ecosystems

Biomes They Try To Avoid

Many Foxes like to make a home underground., whether it would be burrowing, making a fox made den or just using a cave. Caves are just a cheap shelter for a fox, and Lush caves have lots of food while also being a shelter. Caves are ideal for red foxes but a lot of times they are taken by wolves or by bears, so they have to make a small burrow or a big den.

Food

They eat birds, rodents, small animals, worms, and beetle grubs. However, foxes are also quite partial to fruit and, in adapting to our environment, they have developed the ability to eat almost anything such as cheese, bread, vegetables, and table scraps. They have the most diverse diet in the K9 family. The fox is required to eat at least one pound of food a day.

Predators

Young red foxes are primarily preyed upon by eagles, while mature red foxes can be attacked by larger animals, including bears, humans and mountain lions.

The Biggest Threat To Red Foxes

The main threat to red foxes is global warming and humans. Humans have hunted and trapped red foxes for centuries. Climate Change will get rid of vegetation and increase desertification.The red fox's prey are becoming less abundant in some areas, and it faces increased competition which is moving northward as temperatures warm. It is predicted that 1 million spices will be extinct on Earth.

Fox Trapping

There are 3 main different traps: Spring Foothold Traps, Cage Traps, and Snares. Fox trapping have been going on for a long time. Trapping dates back to the 15th century. In 2019 in the UK, the UK banned fox hunting and fox hunting with hounds. Even it is banned, people still fox hunt with hounds mainly. It is still legal to trap and hunt foxes in the US. When the UK still allowed fox hunting about 400,000 foxes were kill in an average year. In the US, it is about 80,000 foxes. The UK hunted quadruple the amount the US. It would of token the US 5 years to kill that many foxes.

Reproduction

Red Foxes mate during the winter. After mating, the female will make a den. The female can have up to 12 pups in a litter. When the pups are born, they're a brown and gray color. Within a month the color red will slowly come into the pups fur. Both parents will be taking care of the pups until next fall. Female pups can be sexually developed at 10 months. Male pups take longer than the females to become sexually developed. sadly to say, when the pups stay with their parents for about a year. The pups stay about 1/3 of there life with there family before leaving the den. Sometimes the parents will split up the pups for safety reason. The breeding season is from January through March. After a gestation period of 51 to 53 days, females give birth to a litter averaging 4 or 5 pups. Now of course they may mate before or after mating season but they will find a better chance of finding mate in mating season.

Sometimes a black fox comes out but it is a rare experience.

Life Span

Population

As you can see in the graph there is a huge decline in red fox population in the 1979 to 1988, this was due to over hunting and trapping. They were mostly hunted and trapped for their red fur. Fur traders would make lots of money getting a red fox fur than any other animal. Rich people would make clothes out, usually scarfs or coats, to look pretty or to keep very warm in the colder months. Today it is rare to see red foxes on earth, and they are still hunted today despite their low populations.

Now hunters might not be the biggest threat to red foxes anymore. Accelerated climate change or man made climate change could prove more of a threat to foxes as wildfires, desertification and violent storms make it harder to survive.

Electric Eel

Did you know that

the Electric eels can grow up to 8

feet? The Electric eel lives in South America. While

rare, an Electric eel can kill a human, there are very few deaths with large

mammals but it is totally possible so don’t try it unless you have a death

wish. The Electric eel can release about 875 volt that is like 584

AA batteries in one shock.

Electric eels are

found in murky pools and calm stretches of the middle and lower Amazon and

Orinoco river basins in South America.

Most eels hide and live in caves and rock crevices. They also like

to burrow

in the sand. These behaviors allow them to surprise and

attack their prey.

Adult electric eels

are generalist carnivores, eating fish, crustaceans, insects and small

vertebrates, such as amphibians, reptiles and mammals. They love to

eat crustaceans, invertebrates, small fish and smaller eels as it is they favorite food. In captivity, they may eat fresh or frozen

squid, crustaceans, feeder fish or other meats.

They may kill or

injure bigger animals if they feel threatened.

They also might kill or injured bigger animals if hungry enough like all animals. When an eel is submerged, the power of its electrical

pulses is distributed throughout the water, freezing its target into state of

shock. Out of water, the high voltage electrical salvo

zaps a target directly through the skin near the eel's chin, intensifying the

effect. A single jolt from

an electric eel could incapacitate

a human long enough to cause him or her to drown, even

in shallow water.

They are more

closely related to carp and catfish.

Electric eels are members of the

knifefish family and not the eel family.

All of an electric eel’s vital organs are crammed into the front 20% of

its entire body. The rest is packed with 6000 cells that act like tiny

batteries. The electric

eel's shock act more like a stun grenade than a tesla gun. That means you are

more likely to die from drowning than from the shock itself. Electric eels

reproduce during the dry season. The eggs are deposited in a well-hidden nest

made of saliva, built by the male,

this is called external fertilization.

In field observations, an average of 1200 embryos were hatched. Fecundity

counts have been documented as high as 17,000 eggs.

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Kidskonnect 1999-2021

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2021

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/electric-eel

Phys Org 2021

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Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute 2021

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Giant Squid Paper

Giant Squid

The biggest giant squid is 18 meters (59 feet) in length making it a real life kraken. The giant squid is the biggest type of squid. The giant squid rivals the colossal squid in overall size. Giant squid live deep underwater in the Twilight Zone at depths between 1,000 feet and about 2,000 feet. Most giants Squids live in the Atlantic ocean but some of them live in the Pacific ocean. The giant squid has 2 large tentacles, a huge mantle 2 large fins and 8 arms. Giant squid's red color provides camouflage in the deep sea because the only available light is blue. Red pigment absorbs blue light so the squid appears to be black and not very visible. The giant squid is part of the Architeuthidae Pfeffer family of the Oegopsida order of the Cephalopoda class Mollusca phylum. All squid lay eggs making them fertilize externally. Most Scientist don't know the exact way that giant squids reproduce, mainly because scientist only found females. The male probably has a fairly large penis to implant sperm directly into the female

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